Next year's Tony Awards will likely be handed out uptown at the United Palace Theater instead of Radio City. Photo: Victoria Will

The Tonys are movin’ up town.

Broadway’s tarnished, conflict-riddled awards — which once honored excel lence in the American theater but now honors “Memphis” — will be handed out next year at the United Palace Theater at Broadway and 175th Street, The Post has learned.

The Tonys are leaving Radio City Music Hall after 13 years to make way for a new production from Cirque du Soleil next spring. (We can only hope it’s an expanded version of “Banana Shpeel.”)

CBS, which broadcasts the Tonys, “still has to approve the move,” says a source. “But it looks like we’ll be in Washington Heights next year.”

There’s already some carping about the new location, of course.

“There’s no parking,” says a producer. “What are they going to do with all the limos? Is Angela Lansbury going to take the subway?”

The United Palace is a grand old Moorish theater built in 1930 as a vaudeville and movie house. Saved from demolition by the late Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II — a k a Rev. Ike — it is a church by day, concert hall by night, now owned by the Christ Community United Church.

Tony officials had toyed with the idea of going to a Broadway theater next year, but there isn’t one big enough to hold all the people billed as producers above the title of a Jeffrey Richards show.

(Richards’ production of “Hair” holds the record, I believe, for the most names ever billed above a title — 40!)

Producers — or people who think they’re producers — are sprouting like mushrooms these days. Last season, something like 425 people had above-the-title billing.

“It’s out of hand,” says a producer, a real producer. “But shows cost so much money, you have to entice investors by promising them their name above the title and tickets to the Tonys.”

Some veteran producers are pushing to limit the number of people allowed on stage to collect a Tony. These old-timers were appalled by the clump from “Memphis” that stormed the stage of Radio City in June.

“It looked ridiculous,” one says. “All those people up there running around screaming. It was not dignified. It’s not elegant.”

The Oscars limit the number of people on stage to four. Some members of the Broadway League are lobbying for a similar restriction.